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David Dumais
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Username: scribbledhopes

Post Number: 75
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 7:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I went on a hunt to find a book to assist me with grammar, It has been a long time since my foot has stepped into a classroom.
There were many, some of them really thick, or just too complicated. My wife found one that seemed good, but really small and thin. But it seems good.

Strunk and White The Elements of Style. fourth edition. I like it and I thought I read the name somewhere, or something like it.

Is this a decent reference? is there one better, I like the size, it sits nicely by my laptop.
I am not perfect but the worlds not perfect, so we are a matching set.
Michael Reed Samford
Intermediate Member
Username: mikesamford

Post Number: 376
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 7:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Look this site up -its free!

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Hope to help.
~M~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 30001
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 10:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

This is the one I depend on, David.

Harbrace College Handbook

Best,
M
Rania Watts
Valued Member
Username: cementcoveredcherries

Post Number: 280
Registered: 04-2008
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 1:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hi David,
Both Mike & M's suggestions are brilliant.
Cheers,
Rania Watts

"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean" ~ Walt Whitman

http://cementcoveredcherry.wordpress.com/
Jane Røken
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Username: magpie

Post Number: 1399
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

David ... I'd like to contribute with my tuppence-worth.

One book that I call my Bible, and on which I'm prepared to swear at any time, is Fowler's Modern English Usage.
It's not only a grammar book. It's a kind of "user's manual to the language", and it covers just about everything, grammar too.

It's one of the most useful books I know.
Take a look at it in your local library and see if it's something for you.

Good luck!
Jane
Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 3975
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 3:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

It has been a long time since my foot has stepped into a classroom.

What happened to the other foot?
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~M~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 30017
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 7:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I think the ogre ate it.

Love,
M
Kathy Paupore
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Username: kathy

Post Number: 8759
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 8:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I still have my Harbrace from college my Lit classes, and still use it. Oh and I still have both feet.

*Kathy
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.--Robert Frost
Judy Thompson
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Username: judyt54

Post Number: 1187
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 6:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Strunk and White has always been the gold standard, for me, as to grammar. The other one is, if you read grammatically correct writing, you will begin to write that way. Poets tend to be huge mimics, and we write what we read.

hwevr if u r in chat rms all da time, u r gonna rite like dis 2. lol.
David Dumais
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Username: scribbledhopes

Post Number: 83
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 7:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

The book is a bit is odd, it explains simple things in such complicated ways that my head spins and I think. What?

Then they give and example.

I see it and smile and think, I knew that, everyone knows that. and move onto the next rule.

This is a great book. I am learning some of the finer things to style, and understanding a few of the rules I was following, but didn't know why.




(Message edited by scribbledhopes on May 25, 2008)
I am not perfect but the worlds not perfect, so we are a matching set.
dave rowley
Valued Member
Username: dave_rowley

Post Number: 101
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 9:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I never paid attention at school and as a result I'm still trying to catch up with grammar and punctuation. My most used grammar resources are:

The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.

and :

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed.

Both are written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon who actually makes these subjects accessible and enjoyable.

Cheers,
Dave
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